22931930
submission
splitenz writes:
Expanding the field of complex event process software with another offering, Twitter will release as open source its software for analysing live large-scale data streams, called Storm.
Although the software has been compared to Hadoop, Storm is best suited for analysing live data streams, such as millions of Twitter feeds.
22748360
submission
splitenz writes:
Hoping to unify the growing but disparate market of NoSQL databases, the creators behind CouchDB and SQLite have introduced a new query language for the format, called UnQL (Unstructured Data Query Language). It has Microsoft's backing.
22183934
submission
splitenz writes:
Google's other social networking site, Orkut, which has been around for about seven years and has tens of millions of users worldwide, will continue to operate alongside the new Google+ for now.
However, Google is leaving its options open regarding the possibility of fusing the two through some sort of integration further down the road.
21399780
submission
splitenz writes:
Sophisticated voice commands will be the next big step for the development of smartphones, according to Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak. He was speaking at the Australian Chamber Business Congress. he also sees a continuing place for touchpads.
21013248
submission
splitenz writes:
Canonical's Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" may still be occupying much of the Linux world's attention, but at last week's Ubuntu Developer Summit in Budapest, the next version of the free and open source Linux distribution began to take form.
A number of decisions were reportedly made about Ubuntu 11.10, or "Oneiric Ocelot," at the conference, while numerous other questions are still being debated.
Ready for a very early look at Oneiric Ocelot? Here's a roundup of what's been reported so far.
20595730
submission
splitenz writes:
TV executive tells major Australian broadband conference that television audiences are slipping away into social media, gaming and other online subscription spaces. YouTube and online gaming is taking the traditional TV audience online and TV is struggling to fightback.
17501156
submission
splitenz writes:
Security researchers, working with law enforcement and Internet service providers, have disrupted the brains of the Koobface botnet.The computer identified as the command-and-control server used to send instructions to infected Koobface machines was offline late Friday (US Pacific time). Criminals behind the botnet made more than $US2 million in one year. Facebook accounts are used to lure victims to Google Blogspot pages, which in turn redirect them to Web servers that contain the malicious Koobface code. This action is only a stage in the war against Koobface.
